"I for one welcome our insect overlords" - The Politics Thread

[Ironbark]

Don't be fooled, nuclear is functionally impractical in the Australian context and a political delaying tactic only. It has its place overseas in some countries (not all), but only in those with existing infrastructure and fee alternatives.

It can't be unrolled economically at the scale or in the timeframes required here. To argue it can be is naive.
Truthfully, those in politics arguing for it have straight up zero intention of pursuing it - it's to buy time for their lobbyists to make their money.

I'm in the industry. Internally this is all well known. It's kind of mind boggling that this debate even has legs in the public domain as everyone actually involved laughs at it all as nonsense

 

[FFC Mariner]

Don't be fooled, nuclear is functionally impractical in the Australian context and a political delaying tactic only. It has its place overseas in some countries (not all), but only in those with existing infrastructure and fee alternatives.

It can't be unrolled economically at the scale or in the timeframes required here. To argue it can be is naive.
Truthfully, those in politics arguing for it have straight up zero intention of pursuing it - it's to buy time for their lobbyists to make their money.

I'm in the industry. Internally this is all well known. It's kind of mind boggling that this debate even has legs in the public domain as everyone actually involved laughs at it all as nonsense

Oh no. You'll set him off again.
AlL tHoSe CAPS

 

[Spacks]

Don't be fooled, nuclear is functionally impractical in the Australian context and a political delaying tactic only. It has its place overseas in some countries (not all), but only in those with existing infrastructure and fee alternatives.

It can't be unrolled economically at the scale or in the timeframes required here. To argue it can be is naive.
Truthfully, those in politics arguing for it have straight up zero intention of pursuing it - it's to buy time for their lobbyists to make their money.

I'm in the industry. Internally this is all well known. It's kind of mind boggling that this debate even has legs in the public domain as everyone actually involved laughs at it all as nonsense

Why is it naive, what are the pitfalls into investing in nuclear seeing as how we have oodles of Uranium?